Ad Fontes House is designed for a family longing for a house with beautiful garden in the urban area. The site is located in a new residential neighborhood surrounded by the mountains. TRU Architects designed the L-shaped brick house which surrounds the garden to embrace the natural light and protect the privacy from the street. […]

This residence has been designed with full integration of the gardens with the living areas. Protected from the street by a stone wall, the transition interior / exterior happens naturally. Living rooms are transformed into large balconies, gently framed by architecture. The walls were contemporary artwork and furniture brings together a collection of vintage pieces […]

The aim was to extend the existing house (a nice block overgrown with ivy in a quiet locality), improve the design of the entrance, and connect it to the garden. The project came to fruition painlessly. We essentially agreed on the first designs for the extension and then could flesh out the design, and later […]

The Cereza20 Residential Project consists of a versatile architectural program proposal for an adult couple. The housing conditions are optional. This means that the usage of the place may be either occupied entirely; or for future opportunities, it can be isolated depending on the conditions of the users. The program consists of 220 m2 area […]

Elevated, wooden boardwalks extending into the beachscape are a common occurrence in the dunes of Eastern Long Island. Hovering slightly over the ground, this simple device is a pathway to the beach that carefully negotiates a constantly changing terrain. Their simple construction challenges the extreme natural elements found at the intersection of land and sea. […]

This house and studio for an industrial designer is located at the end of a street in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, hard against a 3 storey high sandstone cliff which at one time formed part of the shoreline of Sydney Harbour. The street is lined with London Plane trees which together with the cliff […]

This project has its origins in the desire of an elderly couple to have a barbecue for lunches with family and friends – the season permitting – and to enjoy their block of land. Additions made to what was first envisaged as a small one- room construction to be used for these barbecues eventually evolved […]

We were commissioned in October 2010 to produce a design for a new house on the site of a ruined, B-listed black-house on the Isle of Tiree on the west coast of Scot­land. We developed a concept that comprises two houses, a Living-house and a Guesthouse, linked by a Utility wing. Together the elements combine […]

House in Macheon is in a quiet and simple neighborhood in Macheon, where is the south side of Hamyang, Kyeongnam. It’s an unusual place to watch Chun-wang mountaintop very clearly, as well as a street corner to go up to Jiri-mountain tracking course. Jiri-mountain is called Mother Mountain for its gigantic dignity. Catching in glimpse, […]

The land for this vacation house is in Gazipur, a suburb approximately forty kilometers away from Dhaka. With a land area of 160,594 square meters, the initial challenge was to select the most suitable location on site to construct this 465 square meter house. The following maxim led the design philosophy, “a house facing south […]

The place’s choice is determined by the urban vocation owners. A quiet street, almost no traffic, located in Raval neighborhood of San José of Elche. The plot size is 7×10.50m, in a street width of 4 meters. Tripartite and complex collaboration: Maite (the owner), and Javier and Ángel (authors of the project, and one of […]

Inspired by the recent past, contemporary architecture, as opposed to modern production, aims highly for the elapsed time, without losing its major focus: the future. Thus, creates a perspective with wider horizon, refuses to impose itself to the known limits and takes past models to be copied or timidly adapted. Executed by the architects Luciana […]

Design for this house was based on Alexander Dumas’ “The Three Musketeers”, for whom a three volume divider was chosen to represent “Athos, Porthos and Aramis”. The cover, thin proportioned that embraces the whole, reminds of the cape these characters used. The entrance of the house crosses the volumes diagonally through a slot, which emulates […]

Summer in the Greek islands is all about being outside. The aim of the Plane House is to merge internal and external space, maximising the benefits of both and minimising the impact on the surrounding landscape. To avoid block volumes that split and dominate space, horizontal planes are inserted into the slope, immediately providing levels […]

This 3000 SF home sits on a hill surrounded by native meadow shrubs, grasses and conifers. The design scheme takes advantage of southern exposure by opening all the living spaces to southern decks. These exterior spaces are protected by overhangs, mahogany louvers and galvanized steel trellises, which create a layered presence on the sloped site […]

As the brief was substantial, the overall form of the house needed to be pushed to the envelope limits. Naturally, there are also other considerations; the context and proximity of neighbouring homes, the daily sun path and the prevailing winds. Conceptually, the house is a raised reinforced concrete tube whose open ends are oriented in a […]

This mixed use development is located on a beachfront site in Auckland’s eastern suburbs, looking north up the Hauraki Gulf to the mouth of theWaitemata Harbour,the North Shore and Rangitoto Island.The building occupies a corner site over two parcels of land, 387 Tamaki Drive and 6 Maheke Street. The lower level of 387 Tamaki contains […]

Gardner Dailey, an architect noted for bringing modernism to the Bay area, designed this house in the early 1960’s. It sits on a large, wooded and flat site with multiple garden areas- all of which were originally conceived by John McLaren, the original park superintendent for Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Weave through a […]

This Fire Island house is located directly behind beach-front dunes. The strict requirements of both FEMA and local codes regarding height, lot line, setbacks, and site coverage; the proximity of neighbors; and very specific view corridors all presented a host of challenges. Our response was to create a dynamic composition of three intersecting rectilinear forms, […]

The house is composed by 6 squares grouped in pairs. Within this compositional rule, two subtractions were made at opposite sides to form two venues: the garage in the front and the social area behind. The different relationships that they establish with their neighbors (other squares) were determinate by the unevenness of the floor, transparency […]

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